114565 - NOWRAP attribute doesn't work if cell's width not enough

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P5)

Description

[Pete Zha]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4)
Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2
BuildID:    2001112114

If the width not big enough, NOWRAP attribute does not work.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Just open the first attachment
See three tables. The second tables's width is 1. So word in this table is
wrapped although the NOWRAP attribute exist.

I wonder that if there was a rule to disable NOWRAP attribute if the cell's
width is not wide enough...

Comment 1

[Pete Zha]

Attachment: Test case of NOWRAP attribute

Add test case of this bug

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Not a DOM problem, over to HTMLTables.

Comment 3

[Pete Zha]

Add CC to [e-mail]

Comment 4

[anthonyd]

great testcase. confirming bug

Comment 5

[Sivakiran Tummala]

changing priority to P5

Comment 6

[bht237]

If this is trivial then I would like to know what a trivial workaround for this
bug is.

Maybe there is a stylesheet trick to fix this?

Honestly I am struggling to lay out a page where I want to guarantee that the
table cell content is in one line.

At the same time, I do not want the table cell to be wider than the width of the
line.

Only Internet Explorer 3 had this problem. I think contemporary browsers should
not really have this bug. Why is this "future" ?? Ouch!

Comment 7

[bht237]

I see why it is considered trivial. There is an easy workaround:

Do not code the width parameter. Control width by requesting more
width than available in other columns.

Comment 8

[karnaze (gone)]

->alexsavulov.

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

In my opinion, this is not a bug. It all comes down to which attribute should
have precedense, WIDTH or NOWRAP. All other browser I have tested also tries to
honor the WIDTH rather than NOWRAP (IE6, Opera6, Nav4.7 and Nav3.04.)

Recommending INVALID (not a bug), 2002-07-06-04 trunk win98.

Comment 10

[Pete Zha]

I think we need to make sure which attribute is in higher priority. WIDTH or NOWRAP?
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html
[When present, this boolean attribute tells visual user agents to disable
automatic text wrapping for this cell.] Not very clear, and this attribute seems
to be Deprecated now.
I agree to close this one.

Comment 11

[Pete Zha]

Look this, this is how IE understand NOWRAP.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/nowrap.asp

Comment 12

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Mozilla, IE6, Opera6, Nav4.7 and Nav3.04 have the same behaviour here.
Not a bug. Reporter agrees.